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The Postwar and the Japanese Constitution: Beyond Constitutional Dilemmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Yoshikazu SAKAMOTO
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The phrase ‘sixty years of the post-war’ is often used to mean ‘60 years since the end of the war’ or ‘these past sixty years’. However, the term ‘post-war’ itself is premised on a ‘pre-war’ and a ‘wartime’. In other words, prior to the sixty years of post-war, there is the disjuncture between ‘post-war’, on the one hand, and ‘pre-war’ and ‘wartime’ on the other. For me, it is this experience of disjuncture that is the starting point of ‘post-war’.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 11 , November 2005 , e10
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[1] I have outlined this misgiving in ‘The psychology and theory of the peace movement’, Sekai (August 1962), included in Sakamoto Yoshikazu Senshu, vol. 3.

[2] ‘Churitsu Nihon no boei koso’ (Ideas For Defending a Neutral Japan), Sekai (August 1959); Sakamoto Yoshikazu Senshu, vol. 3.

[3] ‘Nihon no gunjika ni kawaru mono’ (An Alternative to the Militarization of Japan). See my 1982 Gunshuku no seijigaku (The Politics of Disarmament, Iwanami shinsho, Sakamoto Yoshikazu Senshu, vol. 4).

[4] A rare exception is Koseki Shoichi et al.'s recent ‘Kenpo 9 jo iji no moto de, ikanaru anzen hosho ga kano ka’ (What sort of national security system is possible under Article 9 of the Constitution?), Sekai (June 2005).